Evaluation

Assessment was done on Microsoft Office 365 and Google Apps for Education in the following general categories:

Email/Calendar

Collaboration Platform

Accessibility

Application Administration

Infrastructure Integration

Identity and Access Management

Application Integration

Security and Privacy

Contractual Terms and Conditions

Support

Cost

Each of these categories was evaluated by different teams of individuals from our campus community. After the evaluation period, team members submitted reports of their assessments.

An additional important component of this evaluation was feedback from our campus community. We invited vendor representatives to campus to provide a demonstration of the two products. After these demonstrations a campus survey was initiated to collect feedback.